Mater Dei Catholic Basketball
What Makes Us Unique
We find our advantages, prepare to win our league, and make opponents deal with what we do well.
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- 1 Different for a Reason
- 2 The Best Team Should Win
- 3 Building to Win Our League
- 4 Scouting
- 5 Foundation and Creativity
We try different things when we see a way they can help us win.
We explore ideas and push at the edges of convention.
Being different can help us beat expectations or make us fumble the bag, so the difference has to work.
We find enough ways to be different that those differences become the reasons we win.
We make opponents prepare for us.That takes up their practice time.
Be different.Execute like a machine.Don’t get pulled into one-on-one battles.
What makes a good team?Roles.Effort.Communication.
We give ourselves a chance against bigger, faster, more skilled players by playing better together.
What’s Important Now.
Do the right thing.At the right time.Every time.
We give the second and third effort it takes to finish the play.
We work to win the next possession through effort, communication, anticipation, and execution.
We talk so all five players know what’s happening and what they need to do.
We do our jobs together, possession after possession.
Size.Athleticism.Skill.Execution.We get all the points.
We must define the words and when to say them.Telling a player to “talk” is like telling him to “play” without giving him a play.
Project The words we use, defined.
Project The specific calls, and the moment each one is made.
On defense, we see the next action coming and get there before it hurts us.On offense, we see the next opportunity and take advantage of it.This is the most important element of our basketball team.
My San Diego High experience taught me to build every game plan around winning the league.
Central League.City League.Eastern League.Western League.
At San Diego High, Crawford was the team to beat, and the job was to beat them twice in league.
When Hoover became the challenge, we built our defenses and offensive sets to beat Hoover.
Coronado and Christian raised the challenge, and we spent the year preparing for Coronado’s 2-1-2 with the big in the middle.
I beat Cathedral, Saints, and Mission Bay when we weren’t supposed to, and we had a plan to do it.
We’re preparing to beat Victory Christian, Bonita, Olympian, and Montgomery.
Project What Victory Christian does well and what we need to do to beat them.
Project What Bonita does well and what we need to do to beat them.
Project What Olympian does well and what we need to do to beat them.
Project What Montgomery does well and what we need to do to beat them.
We take what those four teams demand and work on one league game plan throughout tournament season.
Each coach’s workbook has space to scout what each league opponent does well and what will work against them.
We build one offensive and defensive plan that gives us a chance to beat all four teams.
We use tournament games to work on what will win our league, even when another defense might work better that night.
We work out the kinks over games and games so we can count on our system when league starts.
We scout to see what’s coming.We keep the way we play.
Who shoots.Who drives.Who they feed in the post.Who initiates their offense.
We know who their shooters are before they get a chance to show us.
We know who wants to drive so we’re ready for the attack.
We know whether they want post entries and who they want catching the ball inside.
We learn two or three actions they run so we see them coming.
We know whether they play zone or man so we can choose the offense we want.
We know how they cover screens so we’re ready to attack their choice.
We know what they run on the inbound so nobody gets an easy one.
We use the scout to play our system better and pick the right response.
We take what we saw on film onto the floor so their actions don’t surprise us.
We choose the calls we’ve practiced that fit what the opponent is doing.
We keep our rules consistent so players don’t have to learn a new defense every week.
To be number one, we train like we’re number two.
We watch film for what they do well and prepare to beat them at their best.
That’s my philosophy.We prepare for them at their best, not their worst.
We say “We’ll lose to this team if we don’t…” and name the jobs we must get done.
We lost the Bishop’s game because we watched for lowlights, underestimated them, and prepared like we should win.
We know our jobs so we can trust each other and make plays.
Our priorities guide our choices, including playing together and preparing to win our league.
We use clear calls to tell players what we need, with the exact meaning of “orders” still to be settled.
We have clear rules so players know what to do without starting over on every possession.
Our guard can be creative with the ball because he knows where his teammates will be.
It’s like the NBA 2K settings for all the details.The boss shares their settings, and the assistant gets in line.
How are we defending on-ball screens?Off-ball screens?Post entry?Inbound plays?Do we send sideline and baseline, or do we funnel middle?Do we help off shooters?Do we trap?Do we zone?